VB Forum / General 2 / June 2004

How do I over ride the Caps Lock if it is toggled for all caps?   I would like to include code on
certain forms that resets the user input to lower case characters if the Caps Lock is activated by
mistake/accidentally.
Thank you,

I have written an ActiveX control in VB6, with the intention of people being
able to view it in their IE browser.
It works fine on my PC (win2000,IE6) and also works fine on a collegue's PC
with similar setup.

A question about handles.  I'm writing a MonthCal control (the api version
of the MonthView POS)... mostly for the learning experience.  Anyway,
something occured to me as I came to the .hwnd property.
With any control in VB, the .hwnd property refers to the handle of the

I want to position the Cursor at a particular textbox at the beginning of
the program I placed a command txtOrderName.SetFocus & I get an error
Invalid procedure call or argument.
What am I doing wrong?

I created a Visual Basic 6 program and sent it to a friend who is
having problems in displaying it on his screen. He says that on some
buttons only the top half of the text is displayed and on some text
boxes there is not enough room to enter all the characters.

Earlier today I was in one of those rebellious, non conformist what would
happen if I did this type of moods, so I decided to have a play. I was
looking at the API Decs and wondered why some had aliases, and some didn't.
So after reading the MSDN (yep, I did) I changed one of the ...

I having difficulty with something I would think is simple,  but I must not
be thinking clearly.  I'm trying to divide to two numbers and have only the
integer part returned.  When I try the below, I get an overflow error every
time. The result should 201.Could someone point out ...

  I know how create a video via picturebox on VB .Net using my
webcam. My question is simple, how do I create a crosshair centered at
the picturebox of course which is on-top of the video. I tried using
lines but it always displayed or renders at the bottom and could not

Using Visual Basic .net 2003
How do I set column widths of a GridControl when a form loads?
Thanks for any assistance
Byron

In my app, when a user clicks a treeview node, I want to update a
listview based on data in the tag of the "selected" treeview node.
Nodeclick() works nicely when the user actually clicks the label.  But
I need to also update the listview when the user clicks in the "white

I am using VB6 to print a form that is stored in an excel workbook. I can
open the workbook, fill in the data, and print the form. Finally, I must
quit the excel application.  However, I get the "Do you want to save?"
dialog from Excel.  I will never want to save. Is there a way ...

Hi there, I am trying to use SendKeys() but are not having any luck.
Anybody able to give me a quick example?
Chris

I got this from ... in a Nutshell ...
   Private Function ComputeSchedule(ByVal dblAmount As Double, ByVal
dblRate As Double, ByVal dblNPer As Double) As Object(,)
       Dim dblIPmt, dblPmt, dblPrincipal As Double

i have 5 pictures in my imagelist, and i succeed to show only 2 of them...
Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
Static blnImage1 As Boolean
   If blnImage1 Then

I need some advice using an Array or a Collection.
My App. reads a file with 40000 or more (hex) values (30 characters long)
sometimes sorted and sometimes not sorted.
After that i have to test for the appearance of an value in that list.